Anima Sarah LaVoy

Biography

Anima leads Social Impact experiences at Airbnb. The largest category on Airbnb’s new experiences platform, Social Impact experiences are inspiring activities hosted by nonprofits around the world that connect travelers (and locals) to their cause. Airbnb waives its fees, so 100% goes to the nonprofit. (Check out live experiences in 50 cities: www.airbnb.com/social-impact)

In this role, Anima is motivated every day by a fusion of three great loves: product, entrepreneurship, and designing experiences that change people. She feels lucky to direct these skills toward amplifying meaningful causes around the world.

Prior to Airbnb, Anima was the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Connect (connect.com) a consumer app company building social tech for real-world relationships. She completed her MBA at Oxford in 2011 as a Skoll Scholar, an award received for her first social venture, Swing Semester, which ran a political ‘semester abroad’ program in swing states during the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. Originally from Washington DC, Anima now lives with her entrepreneur husband in San Francisco.